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Innu History at Stake in Labrador | Calgary News
A heated cultural standoff erupts in Newfoundland and Labrador as the Innu Nation pulls out of a provincial exhibit over claims their history was being artificially capped at just 300 years — a timeline they say ignores millennia of Indigenous presence. Cultural guardian Jodi Ashini confronts the government’s ambiguity, while Minister Lela Evans finally acknowledges Indigenous peoples have lived there longer — but avoids confirming the Innu’s presence exceeds the 300-year mark. Eight archaeologists and anthropologists have now publicly backed the Innu’s right to tell their own story…
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